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Advanced USB Port Monitor

Problem

I have just acquired Advanced USB Port Monitor yesterday, and already have a major issue : Now that it is installed, I cannot use VMware Workstation correctly, as the VMware USB Arbitration service doesn't want to start and fails with an error 31.

You can disable the check for USB monitors by modifying the registry:
1. go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hcmon\"
2. Create a new key called "Parameters"
3. In Parameters, create a new DWORD value entry named DisableDriverCheck and then set the value to 1.

It allows to to start the VMware USB arbitration service and run VMware smoothly.